Want to learn hokkien, how?
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I want to learn hokkien, not only will help me talk to elderly folks also can let me appreciate music from taiwan better ( 五月天，强辩�团，�佰 etc). I work during the day. Are there weekend or night classes in hokkien ah?
I googled and all the only school I can find is "Spring International" but they don't seem to have much details such as costs.
of course it's much easier to learn while growing up from parents or grandparents, but spoke mostly mandarin :/
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Hokkien is harder to learn than cantonese. If you ask me, to speak hokkien, it has to come from the blood. I spoke hokkien when I started living with my grandma since I was a kid, and it just came naturally, serious.
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i tot u wanna understand wa mng tee................
u can hang around in food centres and kopitiams
sure can pick up a lot
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Learn canto and appreciate music from Beyond
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Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:
Learn canto and appreciate music from Beyond
BEYOND !!
YEAH!!!
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Originally posted by Chunhow:
I want to learn hokkien, not only will help me talk to elderly folks also can let me appreciate music from taiwan better ( 五月天，强辩�团，�佰 etc). I work during the day. Are there weekend or night classes in hokkien ah?
I googled and all the only school I can find is "Spring International" but they don't seem to have much details such as costs.
of course it's much easier to learn while growing up from parents or grandparents, but spoke mostly mandarin :/
First learn to eat hokkien mee, taiwanese mingnan hokkien, different from here, if I really speak mingnan to you, you understand nothing except my sweet voices.I dunno why singapore erase the dialect speaking, soon, it will be a lost culture, today, you got bangala speaking their native dialects, indian speaking their own dialects of their village, etc etc...and Singaporeans cannot speak their own dialect, quite shameful.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Hokkien is harder to learn than cantonese. If you ask me, to speak hokkien, it has to come from the blood. I spoke hokkien when I started living with my grandma since I was a kid, and it just came naturally, serious.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
First learn to eat hokkien mee, taiwanese mingnan hokkien, different from here, if I really speak mingnan to you, you understand nothing except my sweet voices.I dunno why singapore erase the dialect speaking, soon, it will be a lost culture, today, you got bangala speaking their native dialects, indian speaking their own dialects of their village, etc etc...and Singaporeans cannot speak their own dialect, quite shameful.
yeah I heard mingnan is different from the SG hokkien. should have picked it up from my parents from young :/ what a shame!!
maybe i'll search for mingnan classes instead.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Hokkien is harder to learn than cantonese. If you ask me, to speak hokkien, it has to come from the blood. I spoke hokkien when I started living with my grandma since I was a kid, and it just came naturally, serious.
yeah cantonese is more similar to mandarin? also can pick up quite a bit of cantonese just by watching dramas....but hokkien different. the context of all the words is very important in conversation, all very subtle and hard to catch by someone not taught by a native speaker
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Originally posted by angel7030:
First learn to eat hokkien mee....eat hokkien mee can help?
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watch taiwanese dramas in original hokkien
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Originally posted by Chunhow:
yeah I heard mingnan is different from the SG hokkien. should have picked it up from my parents from young :/ what a shame!!
maybe i'll search for mingnan classes instead.
If u managed to find any course pls share with us here so that we all oso can go and learn
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
eat hokkien mee can help?
Yes, most who fry hokkien mee are hokkien peoples, you can learn from them, ask them to teach you hokkien, in return u patronise them. There are many types of hokkien, if you learn from our taiwanese drama mingnan hokkien, which is pure hokkien, you can get laughed in singapore, just like me, when i speak hokkien to singapore, they laughed but get bewildered by the pureness of it. But sg guys love it when i speak to them in my native hokkien, they find is very lovely.Eng Choon Hokkien
Cheow Huang Hokkien
Chin Men Hokkien
A Men Hokkien
Nam new hokkien
Huang Kuay hokkien
etc etc
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You can contact Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan/æ–°åŠ å�¡ç¦�建会馆 to find out if they organized any Hokkien Conversation lesson : http://www.shhk.com.sg/index.html . Otherwise you can try your luck at your nearest Community Centre.
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Originally posted by M the name:
You can contact Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan/æ–°åŠ å�¡ç¦�建会馆 to find out if they organized any Hokkien Conversation lesson : http://www.shhk.com.sg/index.html . Otherwise you can try your luck at your nearest Community Centre.
Ironically, when I contacted the Hokkien Huay Kuan for Hokkien lessons, they told me to ask my parents to speak to me in Hokkien instead.
I'm also interested to learn Hokkien since is still somewhat useful in Singapore, but the dearth of avenues to learn Hokkien is a huge turn-off!
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Originally posted by chisinau:
Ironically, when I contacted the Hokkien Huay Kuan for Hokkien lessons, they told me to ask my parents to speak to me in Hokkien instead.
I'm also interested to learn Hokkien since is still somewhat useful in Singapore, but the dearth of avenues to learn Hokkien is a huge turn-off!
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Originally posted by chisinau:
Ironically, when I contacted the Hokkien Huay Kuan for Hokkien lessons, they told me to ask my parents to speak to me in Hokkien instead.
I'm also interested to learn Hokkien since is still somewhat useful in Singapore, but the dearth of avenues to learn Hokkien is a huge turn-off!
Call Hokkien Huay Kuan for what, most are busy playing mahjong there, you go there, help those hokkien lau ah pek and ah ma buy food, make tea and on fan, listen to the way they interact in hokkien, then slowly learn from there lor. -
Originally posted by angel7030:
Call Hokkien Huay Kuan for what, most are busy playing mahjong there, you go there, help those hokkien lau ah pek and ah ma buy food, make tea and on fan, listen to the way they interact in hokkien, then slowly learn from there lor.Can learn better thru those ways but it is definitely longer in time.
Your above post, you speak Taiwanese Hokkien to people in Singapore? Sometimes not easy for Singaporeans to understand
Eng Choon Hokkien 〉 永春 Hokkien
Cheow Huang Hokkien 〉詔安 Hokkien
Chin Men Hokkien 〉 金門 Hokkien
A Men Hokkien 〉 廈門 Hokkien
Nam new hokkien 〉 What's this? There's �安 Nam UaN or Lam UaN but never heard of Nam new
Huang Kuay hokkien 〉 安溪 Hokkien (should be An Kuay or An Kh'uay , not Huang Kuay > sounds like 風雞 )
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I'm surprised Hokkien Huay Kwan didn't have proper classes. I attended the Teochew classes, and know friends personally who've attending basic conversational classes in Cantonese, Shanghainese, and Hainanese in their respective Huay Kwan, and we were taught how to write the Chinese word equivalent of the stuff you say in dialects. Not that you'll come out of the class very conversant in the dialect, but you'll learn a lot from there, depending on your teacher.
I'm not sure of Hokkien though, but don't give up. There are actually many Hokkien Huay Kuan in Singapore, you're sure to find one that offers proper classes. I read about it the papers few years ago, but I forgot which Hokkien Huay Kuan carried it.
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Originally posted by BanguIzai:
Can learn better thru those ways but it is definitely longer in time.
Your above post, you speak Taiwanese Hokkien to people in Singapore? Sometimes not easy for Singaporeans to understand
Eng Choon Hokkien 〉 永春 Hokkien
Cheow Huang Hokkien 〉詔安 Hokkien
Chin Men Hokkien 〉 金門 Hokkien
A Men Hokkien 〉 廈門 Hokkien
Nam new hokkien 〉 What's this? There's �安 Nam UaN or Lam UaN but never heard of Nam new
Huang Kuay hokkien 〉 安溪 Hokkien (should be An Kuay or An Kh'uay , not Huang Kuay > sounds like 風雞 )
yalor, so i speak english better, cos my hokkien can scare some young guys away, but many uncles and aunties love it, they asked me to teach them, I find singapore hokkien too rough, kind of mixed up and yet very vulgar, out of all the dialect, guess hokkien is the most rough and vulgar one, within a few phrases, there is a vulgar word in it, for eg, many people do not know that Siao is a vulgar hokkien word, you call a person siao, meaning male syrup -
Originally posted by angel7030:
yalor, so i speak english better, cos my hokkien can scare some young guys away, but many uncles and aunties love it, they asked me to teach them, I find singapore hokkien too rough, kind of mixed up and yet very vulgar, out of all the dialect, guess hokkien is the most rough and vulgar one, within a few phrases, there is a vulgar word in it, for eg, many people do not know that Siao is a vulgar hokkien word, you call a person siao, meaning male syrupsiao2=male syrup.
siao4=crazy.
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To begin expanding your vocabulary, try and find the explanations for the following:
Lao Sai �屎
Lao Kui �气
Lao Hong �风
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Originally posted by Nelstar:
To begin expanding your vocabulary, try and find the explanations for the following:
Lao Sai �屎=diahorrea
Lao Kui �气=farting
Lao Hong �风=spoiled by leaving exposed to the air, eg. ciggies, biscuits.